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  • Victorian Convicts

    100 Criminal Lives

    by Barry Godfrey, David J. Cox, Helen Johnston ...
    "An interesting introduction to Victorian crimes, the people who committed them, and how effective rehabilitation may have been." — Ripperologist MagazineWhat was life like in the Victorian underworld—who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criminal Children

    Researching Juvenile Offenders, 1820–1920

    by Emma Watkins, Barry Godfrey ...
    A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens.How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb their criminal tendencies successful? From 1820–1920, ideas about youth and transgression changed ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Criminal Classes

    Who Does Society Fear and Why?

    by Barry Godfrey, Alexandra Godfrey ...
    We explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking London's streets to the menace of violent gangs, the 'Scuttlers', Peaky Blinders, and Liverpool's High Rip, all the way through to 1970s joyriders, 1990s ravers, and the modern drug trade that brings guns and knives to our streets. It ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Criminal Women, 1850–1920

    Researching the Lives of Britain's Female Offenders

    by Lucy Williams, Barry Godfrey ...
    "The fascinating lives of the women who hit hard times . . . investigat[es] the stories behind the faces in the incredible images." — Al BawabaWomen are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy Williams ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime in England 1880-1945

    The rough and the criminal, the policed and the incarcerated

    by Barry Godfrey ...
    Series series History of Crime in the UK and Ireland
    This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. Chapters include an examination of the growth and experience of imprisonment, policing, and probation services; the recording of crime in official statistics and in public memory; and the possibilities of research created by new electronic and on-line ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses and Life Chances from 1850

    by Barry Godfrey, Heather Shore, Zoe Alker, Pamela Cox ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English juvenile reformatory system. The book breaks new ground in crime research, speaking to pressing present-day concerns around child poverty and youth justice, and resonating with a powerful public fascination for family ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • History and Crime

    by Barry Godfrey, Paul M. Lawrence, Chris A Williams ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    This lively and accessible text provides an introduction to the history of crime and crime control. It explains the historical background that is essential for an understanding of contemporary criminal justice, and examines the historical context for contemporary criminological debates.Topics covered include:Crime statisticsConstructions of criminalityPolicingPrisonsSurveillanceGovernanceWhite ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Crime and Justice since 1750

    by Barry Godfrey, Paul Lawrence ...
    This book provides a comprehensive, introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system, including the development of the police, the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Comparative Histories of Crime

    Edited by Barry Godfrey, Clive Emsley, Graeme Dunstall ...
    This book aims to both reflect and take forward current thinking on comparative and cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. Its content is wide-ranging: some chapters discuss the value of comparative approaches in aiding understanding of comparative history, and providing research directions for the future; others address substantive issues and topics that will be of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940

    Edited by Barry Godfrey, Graeme Dunstall ...
    This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz

    Protecting the Population of Bombed Cities

    by Prof. Peter Adey, Dr. David J. Cox, Barry Godfrey ...
    Series series History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
    Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz. Focusing predominantly on Liverpool, it investigates how the authorities and citizens anticipated the aerial war, and how the State and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Penal Servitude

    Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853–1948

    by Helen Johnston, Barry Godfrey, David Cox ...
    Series Book 5 - States, People, and the History of Social Change
    Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment – short of death – in the criminal justice system, and they remained in place for nearly a century.Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those who were ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD